London: Scientists have come up with "nature-inspired" drones or flying robots that will eventually be used for everything from military surveillance to search and rescue.
14 research teams have come up with different experimental drones that include a robot with bird-like grasping append...

Perth: Australia is mulling deploying a more powerful system that tracked the Titanic 29 years ago to locate the wreckage of the crashed Malaysian airliner as a robotic mini-submarine scouring the Indian Ocean seabed has not achieved any breakthrough in its underwater mission.
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Perth: Air search operations to hunt for the crashed Malaysian airliner were suspended for Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone heading south over the Indian Ocean, as a robotic mini-submarine neared completion of its underwater search with no sign of wreckage.
"Planned air search activities...

Perth: A robotic mini-submarine deployed to unprecedented depths has searched approximately 50 per cent of the focused underwater area of the Indian Ocean floor, as it ended its seventh mission today with still no sign of wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Autonomous underwa...

Washington: Next time you outsmart a computer at chess, think about the implications. It could be a very sore loser!
Humans should be very careful to prevent future computer systems from developing anti-social and potentially harmful behaviour, a new study suggests.

Beijing: The search for wreckage of crashed Flight MH370 resumed Wednesday after the weather improved, with Chinese ships and Korean planes joining the hunt over a vast stretch of the Indian Ocean.
Gale force winds, rain and big waves prevented any sorties being flown on Tuesday but 12 ...

Washington : Malaysia on Friday asked the United States to provide undersea surveillance technology to help in the search for the wreckage of a missing airliner, Pentagon officials said.
The request came as a near two-week search failed to find any debris from the Boeing 777 that disappea...

The Amazing Spider Man is back and he faces the greatest battle he has ever fought in the form of arch rival, Electro. The sparkly blue villain is literally electric and derives power from the energy in the universe and for a boost steals electricity from the main power lines supplying pow...

Earlier this month, Android Guru Andy Rubin revealed his dream of making robots and how Google has already acquired seven robots companies for this secret project. Adding to this list is Boston Dynamics, a robot company based out of Massachusetts, which has been acquired by Google, The New...

Homestead: As a squat, red-and-black robot nicknamed CHIMP gingerly pushed open a spring-loaded door a gust of wind swooped down onto the track at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and slammed the door shut, eliciting a collective sigh of disappointment from the audience.
The robot, developed ...

Beijing: China hailed its Chang`e-3 lunar probe mission "a complete success" Sunday night, after its first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, and lander took photos of each other on lunar surface, Xinhua reported.
A day after the country finished its first lunar soft landing, both the land...

Washington: US scientists have developed a new four-legged robot called WildCat that gallops at 25 km/h on flat ground and will aid military and rescue operations.
The robot was built by Boston Dynamics, a technology company founded by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Techno...

Washington: The US Air Force is unable to keep up with a growing demand for pilots capable of operating drones, partly due to a shortage of volunteers, according to a new study.
Despite the importance placed on the burgeoning robotic fleet, drone operators face a lack of opportunities fo...

Washington: The US military has unveiled one of its most-advanced humanoid robots known as Atlas, which was created to assist in future emergency situations, the American Forces Press Service reported.
The 1.9-meter tall, 150-kg Atlas robot, built by Boston Dynamics, is funded by the Pent...

New York: The UN special rapporteur on extra judicial killings has presented a report recommending a moratorium on the development and use of "lethal robots" and the establishment of a high-level panel to discuss a policy for these weapons, which are designed to kill enemies "autonomously"...

Washington: Robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines.
Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to pro...